Improvement in taps for liquid packages



ALBIN WARTH.

ir'nprovemenf in Taps for. Liquid Packages.

No."l36,2'44, .YPatenredjune 20,1871.

UNITED STATES ALBIN WARTH, OF STAPLETON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAPS FOR LIQUID PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,244, dated June 20,1871.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBIN WARTH, of Stapl eton, in the county ofRichmond and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Tap forLiquid Packages; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the packages, composed of a disk, which formsthe seat for the valve, and to which are secured a discharge-spout and abridge for the support of the screw, by means of which the valve isoperated. The bridge and spout are cast on the disk, which forms thevalve-seat, so that-the whole tap can be made in the cheapest possiblemanner 5 and yet a device is obtain ed which allows of opening thepackage and drawing oi the whole or any part of its contents, and alsoof closing the same hermetically for ltransportation or otherwise.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a disk, which is, by preference,made of tinned sheet -iron, and provided with a central depression, a,and with a ange, b. This flange serves to secure the disk to the packageby means of solder or otherwise, while the de pression a forms the seatfor the valve B. This and over the screw, so that the labor of solderingthe same on the disk and also the labor of cutting the thread are saved.The depression on the back of the valve, serves to turn thesame,together with the screw, and, by turning it in the proper direction, thevalve is raised from or depressed on its seat. On the surface ofthe diskA is formed a spoilt, G, which is, by preference, made. of soft metaland east on said disk, so that the labor of making the tap is reduced toa minimum. It will be readily seen that the bridge d may be placedeither on the inside ofthe disk A, as shown in the drawing, or on theoutside thereof; but in the latter case the seat of the valve would beon the inner surface of the depression a, and the screw c would have toextend through said bridge a sufficient dis tance to allow room for afinger-piece and for the motion of the valve. By casting the bridge andthe spout on the disk A the cost of making the tap is materiallyreduced, and a tap is obtained which closes tight and which can befurnished at a very low figure.

I do not claim a tap, composed of sheet nietal, in the form of a dome,provided with asheetmetal nozzle, and having a valve upon the undersurface opening directly into the can, with its screw-shank passingupward through the dome to receive an exterior lock-nut, as I am aw arethe same is not new. Neither do I claim a bridge on the under surface ofthe valveseat to form a guide for the shank of the valve; but

What I do claim is- The tap for liquid packages, constructed, asdescribed, ofthe valve B, formed on the head of the wood screw c, andthe sheet-metal disk A, provided with the spout G, and the bridge dforming the nut for the valve-moving screw, all as herein set forth.

` ALBIN WARTH. Witnesses:

W. HAUEF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

